SANTA CLARITA — More than a dozen people waited anxiously inside their vehicles Wednesday to reenter Valencia Travel Village RV park a day after the Rye Fire began its path through brush near Santa Clarita as it cascaded westward toward Ventura County.

A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy turns a truck away from the entrance of the Valencia Travel Village near Castaic as residents line up in their cars, behind, while they wait for the evacuation order at the RV park to be lifted on Wednesday morning, December 6th, 2017. (Photo by Dan Watson / SCNG)

A fire crew from Huntington Beach and a bull dozer work to put out a stubborn hot-spot that burned on prison property at Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic on Wednesday in the wake of Tuesday’s Rye Fire which burned 7,000 acres near Valencia. (Photo by Dan Watson / SCNG)

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A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy turns a car away from the entrance of the Valencia Travel Village near Castaic. Six residents line up in their cars, at right, as they wait for the evacuation order at the RV park to be lifted on Wednesday morning, December 6th, 2017. (Photo by Dan Watson / SCNG)

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputies stopped this line of cars at the entrance to the Valencia Travel Village near Castaic as they wait for the evacuation order at the RV park to be lifted on Wednesday morning, December 6th, 2017. (Photo by Dan Watson / SCNG)

A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputies block the entrance of the Valencia Travel Village near Castaic as residents line up in their cars, at right, and wait for the evacuation order at the RV park to be lifted on Wednesday morning, December 6th, 2017. (Photo by Dan Watson / SCNG)

Some of the evacuees passed the time reading books, listening to the radio or searching their cell phones for updates about the blaze that has consumed at least 7,000 acres and was 10 percent contained by 8 p.m. Wednesday. Firefighters were particularly concerned about the fire’s westward movement toward the border between L.A. and Ventura counties.

Deveney loaded up his car and drove to Korea Town to stay with his girlfriend. However, parking wasn’t available at her apartment so he drove back to Santa Clarita and spent the next few hours to trying to sleep in his car on a hill on Franklin Parkway.

“It was cold,” Deveney said.

Jack Shields was unable to gather any of his belongings from his RV at Valencia Travel Village.

Shields traveled with his wife Cynthia, from the Phoneix area about two weeks ago to the RV park so she could undergo surgery Tuesday at Holy Cross Hospital in San Fernando.

Shields tried to return to his RV after his wife’s operation but couldn’t due to the fire. The combination of the surgery and fire has been stressful, he added.

“It’s a little bizarre,” he said. “I didn’t plan it this way. Mother Nature has a way of deciding how to do things.”

The brush fire was first reported around 9:30 a.m. Tuesday at 25101 Rye Canyon Loop and cascaded into a major fire.

Upon arrival, firefighters initially found 5 acres burning in light to medium brush, fueled by 15-mph winds from the northeast.

More than 200 firefighters responded to attack the blaze and protect structures.

In an early update Wednesday on the city of Santa Clarita’s website, officials said there was “no current active fire in the City, but the fire threat remains high as strong winds are expected to continue through Friday.”

About 2,000 people remained evacuated Wednesday morning, according to Cal Fire. There were no immediate reports of injuries

There was still one power outage affecting the city.

Power was back on at the Newhall Community Center, which was open for business, according to the city.

The Rye Fire damaged one outbuilding. There were 775 firefighters battling the blaze.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has authorized the use of federal funds to assist California in combating the fire.

Scott Schwebke is an investigative reporter for the Register and the Southern California News Group. A native of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., he was previously a breaking news and multimedia reporter for the Ogden, Utah, Standard-Examiner. Scott has also worked at newspapers in Colorado, North Carolina and Virginia. A graduate of Brigham Young University, Scott is the Register's 2014 Beat Reporter of the Year. He has won more than two dozen journalism awards including the N.C. Associated Press News Council’s O. Henry Award for a lengthy narrative on the brutal home invasion slaying of a nurse and a Katie Award from the Dallas Press Club for a feature story on a UFO investigator. Scott has covered everything from methamphetamine trafficking cops to hurricanes and has accompanied police on undercover drug buys. He also provided an award winning, eyewitness account of the execution of a North Carolina death row inmate and obtained an exclusive interview with the ringleader of a brazen escape from the Orange County Jail involving three maximum security inmates. Scott was also part of the Register’s investigative team that produced the year-long, award winning Rehab Riviera series, examining problems in Southern California’s drug rehabilitation industry. Having spent two years living in England including Liverpool, he is an avid Beatles fan and memorabilia collector. He and his wife, Lisa, reside in Anaheim.